Word: deafness
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...called Manual of Silent Method-finger-sign language-was brought to the U. S. by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, who went to Europe in 1815 to study education of the deaf, and for whom Gallaudet College, founded in 1864 at Washington, was named. The Clarke School, founded in 1867, had as its first trustee-president the late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first...
...Iowa Hawkeye The Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf Council Bluffs, Iowa
...Prime Minister, who lost the election of 1923 on the "Safeguarding" issue remained deaf to all such pleas, although he himself is in the steel business, and only said...
...saddest of all was the case of Luke Briotta, 13, deaf and dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...blind, sharp ears are given and sensitive fingers; those who cannot hear must use their eyes to make up for being deaf. Great musicians have been deaf; to sculptors, lack of hearing should surely prove no handicap. Thus, Mrs. Louise Wilder, deaf and somewhat famed sculptor of babies, last week indicated some of the advantages which she has derived from her deficiency. "Having been deaf for fourteen years I have learned to work entirely by myself never hearing the disturbing noises that bother so many artists in big cities. While others must go to the country for solitude, I have...